On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 1:58 PM Sumit Bhardwaj <sumitkbhardwaj@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Everyone,

I have a paid subscription of an online streaming service Hotstar.com in India. The problem is, they are using some Flash based DRM technique with their videos due to which they don't play on Fedora 24 Workstation. I only get a movie not loaded message in context menu of flash player. 

I searched about this issue and found few things to try like using freshplayer to get PepperFlash or installing the HAL shim library. But none of these methods seems to work with Fedora 24. Can anybody hep me out with this? It is so frustrating to go back to Windows just to watch my favorite streams.

Thanks in advance.


I've struggled with this a lot when Amazon Prime still used Flash. I tried all the workarounds, jumping from one to the other, as each one broke with each update. I think the best option nowadays is to avoid such sites entirely. Most of the major video streaming services have switched to HTML5 video, instead of Flash. I'm not sure it's worth struggling to continue to run Flash on Fedora.